Sunday, April 19, 2009 10:46 PM
Here in Hong Kong, my friends and I will try to reward ourselves once in a while. Like for instant the expensive dim sum treat at Serenade Restaurant that overlooks the waters, seafood at cheung chau and our already-twice dim sum treat at awesome New Star. (Note how I'm sprouting out restaurant names easily rather than just referring to "this" or "that" restaurant. hur)
Although these treats are really occasional, usually once a month unless there's a special celebration that particular month, we still feel the pinch on our wallets when we sum up our accounting every month. I think it's a foreign-student syndrome - the i-need-to-watch-over-my-expenses streak in us. Seriously, who ever thought of doing accounting back home? Then again, it makes me reconsider my spending ways back home and perhaps even start a habit of keeping track of my expenses.
The point is, today we had our spurge of the month! Except that we didn't pay a single cent. We met some Singaporeans in the church we had been attending since Jan but only got to know them last week. Their hospitality overwhelmed us immediately. They offered to bring us out to lunch today, which they did. We went to this atas Shanghai restaurant for lunch which had never ending supply of food. I lost count of the number of courses that were served one after the other.
And the most priceless thing (other than dining with big names in SG and HK universities and the occasional awkward silences and the umpteen times we introduced ourselves):
the bill.
A roaring total of
$7777 HKD which amounts to more than $1500 SGD.
Go ahead, let your jaws drop.
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